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Face endless people giving a torrent of abuse (8)

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I believe the answer is:

diatribe

'a torrent of abuse' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'face endless people' is the wordplay.
'face' becomes 'dial' (face of a clock).
'endless' means to remove the last letter.
'people' becomes 'tribe' (a tribe is a group of people).
'dial' with its last letter taken away is 'dia'.
'dia'+'tribe'='DIATRIBE'

'giving' is the link.

(Other definitions for diatribe that I've seen before include "Bitter verbal attack" , "provoking verbal onslaught" , "stream of abuse" , "'Abusive, bitter speech (8)'" , "A Prolonged harangue" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian and The Telegraph.
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